Re: I wonder if it would be complicated to design...

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"Jonno Downes" <jonnosan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious why you would target PC-formatted drives rather than say a CF 
> card?

Hi Jonno. How have you been?

I agree. A CF Card is a perfect solution. My Microdrive on my Apple //e with 
the external drive adapter is the ideal method. My Commodore 64 has a 
similar solution using SD ram.

The Microdrive is still available through Joachim Lange. I have been 
thinking about ordering another Microdrive for myself, and I am also 
considering whether I should put an order together with some other folks, 
but I really don't have time to report statuses and collect money for 
"community orders".

Also, the next run of CF3000s  is scheduled later this year. Rich Dreher has 
put lots of these out in the aprox. 10 years.

There is no media hardware solution simpler than using Ciderpress to fill a 
CF card with Apple //e programs, and then to remove the CF card from the usb 
adapter on theWindows Machine, and to reach across the room and plug the CF 
Card into the Apple //e's external drive and then booot off the CF Card and 
run the programs on the Apple //e.

This is about as fast as using the AppleWin emulator to run these off a 
hard-drive image or disk image.

A picture of my Apple //e with a Microdrive is on one of my websites 
http://www.cpm8680.com/ at the bottom of the page. The disk drives are not 
normally on top of the monitor, so ignore that... but look on the right hand 
side at the little external CF drive case.

Also on that same page is a link to Jonno Downes' dsktool.rb and 
dskexplorer.rb. That's been there several years now...

The Apple //e will not last forever if we pursue obsolete media solutions 
instead of educating ourselves to alternatives that are not obsolete. No 
solution is ideal, but right now the CF solution comes close.

Bill